AMY GENTRY is the author of the feminist thrillers Good as Gone, Last Woman Standing, and Bad Habits, as well as Boys for Pele, a book of music criticism in the 33 1/3 series. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in numerous outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, Salon, the Paris Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Austin Chronicle. Her interests include cake decorating and horror films, and her favorite movie is The Women (1939). She holds a PhD in English from the University of Chicago, where she wrote her dissertation on miniatures and modernism, and lives in Austin, Texas.